Adjustable guide for sliding doors



' Slept. l18, 1928.

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Patented Sept. 18, 1928i.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE.

NICHOLAS KAUTH, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSGNOR TO A. J'. BAYER COM- v IPANY, A CORPORATION O1?" CA,LIFORNIA.r

ADJUSTABLE GUIDE FOR SLIDING DOORS.

This invention relates to shoes or guides for sliding doors, and has for its object to provide means whereby the movement of the door is directed over a given path, or the stop position of the door is fixed at a given point, or both.

Figure l is a section from a steel door carrying this invention.

Figure 2 is a bot-tom plan view thereof enlarged.

Figure 3 is a vertical section along the lines 3 3 ot Figure l.

Figure l shows a bracket carrying a shoe applied to a wooden door.

Referring to the drawings, l represents the base ot a pressed steel door, while la (in Figure 4) represents a bracket carrying this invention, and is shown attached to a wooden door. v i

In the door base 1, like in all steel doors, there is an angle iron 8, riveted or welded thereto. The supporting rods 4t have their ends in the angleiron 8, and abut against the inner surface oit the frame l et the door, 25 thus being retained therein. The adjusting screw 5 is retained by the saine means, but in the door trame l there is found S, a hole ot smaller diameter than the headof the adjusting screw 5. The screw 5 has a slot 6 out in its head, so that a screw-driver, or a like instrument, can be inserted therein, toy

adjust the shoe.

The shoe 2, which is guidedin the guide rail T at the bottom ot the dooropening,slides snugly on the rods and is threaded through the screw 5, so that by turning the screw, the shoe can be shifted. in respect to the thickness, rlhe position of the shoe as thus adjusted, determines the vertical plane et the door.

`The guide or shoe 2 is preferably of elliptical form, so as to minimize the trictioiibe tween the bearing surfaces on the guide rail 7, attached to the building or structure.

The elliptical forni orp slice permits a relatively great angle between the plane of the door and axis of the guide rail, without binding between thetwo, while maintaining relatively large bearing surfaces between theV In Figure 4, I have shown this invention applied to a wooden door. The invention here is applied in the form ot' a bracket secured to the wooden door by the screws 10.

l/'Vhat I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. i shoe tor sliding doors carried by supports from the door and having independent means for adjusting the shoe laterally on said supports in a transverse plane and securing it in its adjusted position. y Y

2. A shoe for sliding doors supported at its ends from the door with independent means engaging y'the intermediate portion of the shoe tor adjusting the lateral position of the shoe on the door.

An elliptical shoe for sliding doors supported at each end from the door with independent ineans engagingvthe intermediate portion of the shoe for adjusting the lateral position et the shoe on the supports.

4.-. In a door having aguide shoe thereon,

the combination ot a base and a reinforcingV member carried therein, supports for the slice penetrating said reinforcing member with their ends abutting and concealed by said door base, with independent means aecessible through shoe on its supports.

5. The combination or a door having a guide shoe, means tor supportingthe shoe tor adjustment transversely with reference to the door, and means independent of such supporting means for such transverse adjustment and locking the shoe in its adjusted position.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afEX my signature.

NICHOLAS KAUTI-I.

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